It seems that unless you've decided to volunteer to host the site and pay for its continued operation, and also convinced the current owner to let you do that, then allowing Magic to handle the outages is indeed your only option.

i figured this site as a cash cow, with the advertising

couple million a day easy with all us forum junkies

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